Video: Confronted by Truthers, Dean-o plays dumb

posted at 2:49 pm on June 18, 2007 by Allahpundit

Many thanks to my estimable colleague for covering me for the past few hours. My aging PC and I had a little date with destiny that required immediate attention.

Whenever I’m away from the site for a stretch I like to come back with The Truth. So here’s the chairman of the DNC meeting some of his core constituents and shamelessly pretending like he doesn’t know what they’re talking about. That’s not surprising: when asked at one of the primary debates in 2003 about his own notorious foray into Trutherism, he ducked the question so pathetically that even the true-blue leftists at Slate felt compelled to call him on it.

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You gotta love Trutherism. This will be one of the great live third rails of the coming election cycle. A great example of how some of the Nutroots elements are easily capable of hanging themselves. Mainstream right journalists and bloggers should be vetting every Democrat candidate for signs of Trutherism.

2. (Ad Hominem attack, warning) Is it my imagination, or are the Truthers mostly fat, pasty little white boys who look to have spent a lot of time in the school band, playing saxophone (badly) or bass clarinet (worse), fighting serious acne problems, and getting beat up a lot?

These are the people he represents. Doesn’t seem comfortable around them, though.

If these so-called scholars wanted some truth they should have stood at the bottom of the pit and started mouthing off in front of the people cleaning up the disaster. Ambushing politicians is pretty lame, but always amusing hen they are Dhims.

2. (Ad Hominem attack, warning) Is it my imagination, or are the Truthers mostly fat, pasty little white boys who look to have spent a lot of time in the school band, playing saxophone (badly) or bass clarinet (worse), fighting serious acne problems, and getting beat up a lot?

Just asking.

Jaibones on June 18, 2007 at 3:09 PM

I would have to say “yes” to that; see Rosie O’Donnel.

I would say that the conspiracy mindset comes from people who feel disenfranchised, isolated and rejected by “normal” people. It serves as a vehicle for those who feel powerless over their lives (and who have had this powerlessness affirmed through various attempts at social interaction) to feel a sense of power and superiority. They “know something” you don’t. They’re “smarter than you” because they understand the “real, secret reason” for a certain event and you don’t. They’re “special”, (of course not in the way that we think they’re special.) That’s why many of these types like comic books & sci-fi; they can live vicariously through characters with special powers. In a sense they possess special powers of their own by “knowing” things about spectacular events that you don’t or having certain facts that you don’t.

Pay close attention to his facial language, he clearly is feeling pressure and his skin turn slightly pink, his lip movements show his stress. He doesn’t believe a word, but he will pander to whomever, whereever forever to gain power. POWER that’s all it is for these types. BEWARE!!!

Wow, if that’s receptive then it’s a good thing this guy is in moonbattery and not sales. Come to think of it though, his optimistic spirit would be quite a boon to a door to door salesman, “Well, at least he didn’t open my sample case before throwing it at my head. That’s one ‘no’ that I’ll put down as a ‘not yet.’”